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Aliens

I have been creating an alien city and wanted some green hair etc. for my green skinned citizens. Nothing really special, but I am uploading them in the off chance that someone else might want to use them. I did 4 male & 4 female hair styles. All are the same color/texture. Mostly because I hate downloading hair only to realize there are no beards etc. in the right shade to match, I am also uploading some matching facial hair for the males. Everything is off of the original game pack, so there are no expansions or meshes needed. :)

'Baby Wildlife Nursery' - Preview!

Hi All! I must admit I've been a bit quiet on the update front lately, but that doesn't mean I haven't been doing anything! Quite the opposite in fact - I've got so many projects on the go now that I don't know whether I'm coming or going! Anyway, I have had a few people asking about my nurseries/bedrooms, and the answer is yes, I will be converting all of my 'Little Bedroom' collections into nurseries in time, as well as adding a few more new ones. So, here we have a preview of the latest conversion: 'My Baby Wildlife Nursery' The set includes: Crib frame + 2 sets of bedding Changing Tables x 2 (to match the bedding) High Chair Potty All of the other items shown are from the 'Little Bedroom' collection, which I will either include or provide a link for. Comments, thoughts, ideas, suggestions, etc., are welcome as always, and if you have an idea/theme for a bedroom/nursery that you'd like me to have a go at, please let me know and I'll get back to you. Wild Mad Cow!

~Important - About The Motion Set.

Hey ya, users!

It's quite sadly but I must post that 2-tile Arch + Diagonal version from my The Motion Set are re-uploaded because of the GUID conflict, it replaced Glass&Matte 2-tile Arch.

I'm so sorry for that trouble! Thanks to people who noticed it.
Now everything's OK, I've got new GUIDs for both versions.

So, please, re-download them again. Other items from the set work fine.


Kind regards,
Marina

October Updates!

First on the list is a new lot I've been tinkering with over the last week. It's a condominium so it requires Apartment Life. It's my first lot upload so be gentle! I had a lot of fun working on it so I might try a few more later on. Next are some outfits. The toddler outfits are for Seasons and they are unisex. I know some may not look so great on a little boy but I wanted to include them all as unisex. You can use SimPE or Wardrobe Wrangler to re-categorize them if you like. Also, I want to let everyone know these will be the last outfits using these textures and patterns. I have some new patterns I will be working with for future uploads. At least that's the plan! Last is a jewelry collection set. It will include two seperate sets. One for base game and one for Bon Voyage. This is in honor of my eldest niece Ashley. She's 21, a total sweetheart with a bubbly personality and one of my closest friends.

Life Is Good

Well, things in my life seem to have taken a turn for the better. Hopefully that will eventually give me more time to create, but I'll have to wait and see how it goes.

Thanks to all who took part in my poll. I ended up getting Bon Voyage, Kitchen and Bath and Ikea. Maybe I'll get the others later, I don't know. But at least now I have some new objects to recolor. We'll see what comes of that. At the moment I'm enjoying recoloring mostly base game items and my meshes.

Ah yes, meshes. Still no time to devote to that. I keep trying, but losing out to time pressures. Perhaps in the not too distant future I'll have some new objects for you.

Always open to ideas and suggestions. May not do them, or may not be able to, but I'll still listen/read.

Take care!

Retro Toy Oven

Finally a new uppdate! A toyoven that workes as a Maxis toyoven, except the toddlers can have a little fun playing with the oven door.

Chinese Zodiac Bedding

I have been working on a two sets of Chinese Zodiac bedding, they will be available soon to download. Here is some some background information about the Chinese Zodiac. The Chinese Lunar New Year is the longest chronological record in history, dating from 2600BC, when the Emperor Huang Ti introduced the first cycle of the zodiac. Like the Western calendar, The Chinese Lunar Calendar is a yearly one, with the start of the lunar year being based on the cycles of the moon. Therefore, because of this cyclical dating, the beginning of the year can fall anywhere between late January and the middle of February. This year it falls on February 12th. A complete cycle takes 60 years and is made up of five cycles of 12 years each. The Chinese Lunar Calendar names each of the twelve years after an animal. Legend has it that the Lord Buddha summoned all the animals to come to him before he departed from earth. Only twelve came to bid him farewell and as a reward he named a year after each one in the order they arrived. The Chinese believe the animal ruling the year in which a person is born has a profound influence on personality, saying: "This is the animal that hides in your heart." This year is the year of the rat, so im giving you a look at my Year Of The Rat bedding. There will be two sets, six animals in each set. The rat bedding will be in set one.

Tired of 'free sets'!

Yes, it's exactly as you read it! I'm tired of free sets. Well, no, I'm not tired of setting my sets free, I'm tired of seeing just the news about free sets in my blog. So I've decided to talk of something else for once. That is my Brick Patio series: yes, it's not just a set anymore, it's going to become a series of sets. And it's so strange given the way it's born. Some time ago I thought that it was nice to have a few items to make a patio; this is used a lot in Italian modern (and not so modern) buildings, so I see that kind of elements a lot in my life. When I had finished the meshes and tested in game, it came to my mind that one could reach the same result using the "invisible" door-arches by Windkeeper and so I was very close to bin them. The only thing that kept me from deleting the files was that I put a great effort in making them join seamlessly with Maxis walls and I thought that maybe someone could be interested in them. Just when I started getting comments of people saying that door-arches need a tile on both sides, I realized that they couldn't be used the same way as these useless things I had made. I must admit that I felt really silly, as though I had never played the game. But at the same time I thought that if people (that is you) liked them, maybe I could expand on them. I had withheld a 2-storey column from the first set because it couldn't be used with the same arches: so the most obvious thought was to complete the 2-storey set. And here it is, with the matching arches 2, 3 and 4 tiles wide. (ceiling tiles shown in picture are courtesy of Cyclonesue: go grab them because they're amazing!) And then our most wonderful forum admin, Tug�, asked me a one tile arch, and no matter how I made it, it never seemed to look right, basically because the column I had made was off-side, to avoid seeing it from inside the walls, and this didn't go well with a small, very curved arch. So I gave up and made a completely new set of column and arches, exactly as wide as the game walls, that could be place wherever someone wanted them to be without problems. And here's the result. Yes, the optical illusion makes the one-tile arch look strange next to the other, but they are exactly as tall. All the meshes will use the repository and borrow the texture from the first column, so I won't clutter too much your downloads folder with recolours. I'm still tweaking the set, but it will be released soon. In the meanwhile you can enjoy the new recolours I've made, and also those made by Hatshepsut. Hagerks2 will also make some recolours of these soon.

Mobile Home Community

For those of you who have downloaded my first mobile home community, I'm truly sorry for the inconvenience but it doesn't work. I have recently revised it and the working (BETTER) version will be released soon. Please delete the old one and re-download. Thank you! There are a few changes but I'm sure you'll all love it! Again, sorry for the inconvenience. Enjoy!!

Phew! Garden is uploaded

I JUST finished uploading the Garden set. All 34 pieces of the set.
It takes a long, LONG time to upload sets here on TSR, because each individual item must be uploaded with its own picture, description as well as selecting all the (numerous--and I mean numerous) applicable attributes.
It took me more than two hours to upload all 34 items.
In case anyone has ever wondered why I frequently break up my sets into multiple parts, THIS IS WHY!

So please let it be known that from now on, any set that I upload with more than 20 files will be split up. The includes all future Manor House Collection sets as well. It's just too much of a hassle to upload everything at the same time =/

Anyway, the Garden set will be released on the 25th =]
Full preview for the set is here:
http://www.thesimsresource.com/downloads/upcoming/sims2/SetID_784225/